SORTABLE LIST / SUBMIT DESIGN / DISCUSSION
This is a list of synthesizers and related hardware you can build on your own. All designs are open-source including firmware. Submit designs which is not in list and discuss your building experience.
- ATtiny Punk Console — ATtiny85 implementation of Atari Punk Console
- Ambika — Multi-voice, hybrid synthesizer. Descendant of Shruthi-1.
- Anushri — DIY digitally controlled analog monosynth.
- Arpie — Compact, highly-functional, MIDI arpeggiator.
- BE2N — BE2N is a 22HP eurorack module with two specular Benjolins at its core.
- Drone & Drama — Simple drone synth based on Teensy.
- DrumKid — Lo-fi aleatoric Arduino drum machine.
- Echo Rockit — Small, portable synth / effect processor.
- Faderbank 16n — 16 faders MIDI-controller which is compatible with modular world
- Fasma Festival — Yet another Teensy drum machine with clock sync.
- Kelpie — Portable polyphonic digital synthesizer.
- Le Strum — Compact and very simple yet funny MIDI strummer.
- Lil CMOS toolbox — CMOS-based semi-modular synthesizer.
- Lil' mono — Simple east coast analog synthesizer.
- Lunchbeat — 1-bit percussion sounds and a sequencer.
- MIDIvampire II — 4 voice drum machine that is powered from the MIDI data line.
- Meebleeps Freaq FM — Dual-Voice 2 operator 8-bit FM Arduino Synth with 2-track generative sequencer, Mozzi library, Volca form-factor.
- Meebleeps Mutant — 8-Bit 2-oscillator subtractive Arduino synth for generative techno, using Mozzi library, in Volca form-factor.
- Meeblip Micro — Hackable monophonic synth based on atmega32.
- Meeblip SE — Hackable monophonic synth based on atmega32.
- Meeblip Triode — Hackable monophonic synth based on atmega32. It consists of 2 PCBs stacked together.
- Mega MIDI — MIDI-compatible Sega Genesis/Megadrive Synthesizer with REAL sound chips.
- Mixtape Alpha — Credit-card sized Atmega328-based 4 voice synth.
- NSynth Super — An experimental physical interface for the NSynth algorithm.
- NTH synth — 8-bit hackable mono synth.
- Nano minipops — Korg minipops made around Arduino.
- Noise Toaster — Simple, full analog noise synth.
- Norns shield — Norns is an open, dynamic instrument creation platform and musical computer.
- OTTO — Digital hardware groovebox, with synths, samplers, effects and a sequencer with an audio looper.
- OpenDeck — Open platform for ultimate MIDI control deck building
- POLY555 — Polyphonic, analog, square wave synth based on the 555 timer chip.
- Polaron — Digital drum machine based on the Teensy 3.6.
- Polykit X1 — Full analog, semi modular (!), patchable synthesizer. It is an interface that works in conjunction with open source voice card.
- Portable synth — OP-1 style portable groovebox based around Teensy 4.
- PreenFM 2 — Preenfm brings the old FM synthesis in small open-source modern DIY boxes.
- Real SID shield — Digital interface to SID chip (Commodore 64).
- Shruthi-1 — Hybrid synthesiser with digital generators and swappable analog filter boards.
- Sound Lab Mini-Synth — Full analog legendary design by Ray Wilson.
- Sound Lab Mini-Synth MkII — Full analog Ray Wilson's synth. Descendant of Sound Lab Mini-Synth.
- Teensy Audio FX — Playable effects modeled on the Teenage Engineering PO series
- Teensy Beats Shield — Handheld audio sequencer. PO style.
- Totoro 1-IC — Cheap and easy to solder 2 oscillators synth.
- WTPA2 (Where is the party at 2) — 8-bit audio sampler kit which does some stuff that no other samplers out there do.
- Wee Noise Maker — Pocket size sampler/sequencer with audio DAC, headphone amplifier and audio input.
- YM2149 Synth — Neat little chip that was used in various retro arcade machines and consoles, including the Atari ST.
- Yowler — Versatile small form noise/drone synth.
- ZeKit — 4 voice paraphonic synth.
- Zynthian — Open Platform for Sound Synthesis & Processing build on top of Raspberry Pi.
- x0x heart — Heart of the infamous TB-303, surgically extracted to be transplanted into your designs.
- x0xb0x — Full reproduction of the original Roland TB-303 synthesizer, with fully functional sequencer.